Danielle Celermajer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 241072 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Danielle Celermajer |
| NOMBRES | Danielle |
| APELLIDO | Celermajer |
| FIRMA | CELERMAJER D |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5827-6988 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 168 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Enablers of community‐led action in Australian climate disasters
This study explores how disaster‐impacted communities in New South Wales, Australia, mobilised during and after the bushfire crisis of 2019–20 and multiple catastrophic floods between 2020 and 2022. Interviews were conducted across three regions: Northern Rivers; Blue Mountains; and Hawkesbury. Our findings illuminate how community‐led actions are driven by a broad range of ‘local knowledges’, based in and organised through long‐standing networks…
Collectivising resonance through ritual
As environmental crises intensify, political responses remain inadequate, feeding cultures of ‘structural apathy’. On the margins of public opinion, however, growing numbers of environmental activists, community organisers, scientists, educators and young people testify to their experience of ecological emotions, that is, grief, despair and horror tracking accumulating more-than-human loss, past, present and future. This article offers a new conc…
Ecological Crises and Ecopolitics Research in Australia
It is difficult to exaggerate the scale of contemporary ecological crises. These challenges, particularly climate change, necessitate new modes of politics and policy, even potentially new institutions, that seem anathema to the emphases of traditional accounts of environmental political science. In this paper, we explore contemporary ecopolitics research in Australia that is attempting to come to terms with the reality of ecological crises and t…
Introduction special issue eco-emotions
Prefiguring multispecies justice
Formal disaster management plans and institutions are systematically neglectful of the impacts of climate-change-exacerbated disasters on animals, with few exceptions. While animals’ exclusion in this context is consistent with their status as property, or parts of ecosystems with no independent ethical value, differently located humans and animals contest this status and the types of institutions that follow from it. In this article, we draw on …
Healthcare-related carbon footprinting—lower impact of a coronary stenting compared to a coronary surgery pathway
Healthcare is a major generator of greenhouse gases, so consideration of this contribution to climate change needs to be quantified in ways that can inform models of care. Given the availability of activity-based financial data, environmentally-extended input–output (EEIO) analysis can be employed to calculate systemic carbon footprints for healthcare activities, allowing comparison of different patient care pathways. We thus quantified and compa…
Climate imaginaries as praxis
As communities around the world grapple with the impacts of climate change on the basic support systems of life, their future climate imaginaries both shape and are shaped by actions and material realities. This paper argues that the three globally dominant imaginaries of a climate changed future, which we call 'business as usual', 'techno-fix' and 'apocalypse' - fail to encourage actions that fundamentally challenge or transform the arrangements…
Intergenerational Multispecies Justice
BACKWARDS, IT PROMISES THE restoration of a moral order heretofore disrespected and violated; looking forward, the establishment of the institutional conditions in which lives might flourish without fear of arbitrary deprivation and harm.This, at least, is the ideal.In practice, under conditions where the logics of colonialism, capitalism, extractivism and human exceptionalism remain hegemonic, the justice mainstream institutions deliver all too …
A Political Theory for a Multispecies, Climate-Challenged World
This essay is part of a special issue celebrating 50 years of Political Theory. The ambition of the editors was to mark this half century not with a retrospective but with a confabulation of futures. Contributors were asked: What will political theory look and sound like in the next century and beyond? What claims might political theorists or their descendants be making in ten, twenty-five, fifty, a hundred years’ time? How might they vindicate t…
Multispecies justice
This essay seeks to open a conversation about multispecies justice in environmental politics. It sets out some of the theoretical approaches, key areas of exploration, and obvious challenges that come with rethinking a core plank of liberal theory and politics. First, we discuss some of the diverse scholarly fields that have influenced the emergence of multispecies justice. We then discuss core concerns at the centre of this reconfiguration of ju…
The Australian bushfire disaster
Bushfires in Australia in the “Black Summer” of 2019–2020 shocked the world. Research is allowing us to begin to appreciate the scale of the catastrophe for humans, other animals, and the environment. If we are to anticipate, mitigate, and prevent further catastrophes and to protect biodiversity as best we can, we must develop a comprehensive picture of the impacts of these recent bushfires, understand their causes, and trace where responsibility…
Alter-transitional justice; transforming unjust relations with the more-than-human
Drawing on the emerging field of multispecies justice, this article seeks to understand how the idea of transitional justice, capaciously understood, might be put to work to transform unjust relations between humans and the more-than-human. Reflecting on concerns in the literatures on animals and the environment concerning the cogency of addressing past wrongs against the more-than-human by using a justice framework, the article sets out a founda…
Adam in the garden and Lear in the storm
Amongst humanities scholars seeking to transform our understanding of the relationship between humans and other animals, there is near universal agreement that the stories constitutive of the tradition we call ‘the West’ assume and inform an ontology of absolute separation and hierarchy, and a politics of domination. Whilst this way of telling stories about our stories elucidates the tremendous hold that the narrative of human/animal discontinuit…
The Subject of Human Rights
Covid and the Era of Emergencies
The threat of emergency measures introduced in face of COVID-19 has largely been framed in terms of individual rights. We argue that it is not the protection of the sovereign individual that is most at stake, but the relations between political subjects and the institutions that enable their robust political participation. Drawing on Hannah Arendt's analysis of the ways in which isolation and the incapacity to discern truth or reality condition t…
Multispecies justice
In 2019, the climate emergency entered mainstream debates. The normative frame of climate justice as conceived in academia, policy arenas, and grassroots action, although imperative and growing in popularity across climate movements, is no longer adequate to address this emergency. This is for two reasons: first, as a framing for the problem, current notions of climate justice are insufficient to overcome the persistent silencing of voices belong…
Distributed agency, responsibility and preventing grave wrongs
Justice Through a Multispecies Lens
The Fate of the Illegible Animal
The entanglement of donkey and human lives is both long and multidimensional, woven with the threads of economic inter-dependence, cultural and religious significance, militarism, friendship, ideas about and programs of conservation, and traditional Chinese medicine turned into a global industry. In this paper, we discuss four eras of entanglement of wild donkeys in Australia. During the first, now past, domesticated donkeys were exploited worker…
Institutional Transformations
The idea that social and political institutions can be designed in order to achieve specific human ends goes back, at least, to Plato’s presentation of the appropriate form of the just city-state i
The Tick-Tick-Ticking Time Bomb and Erosion of Human Rights Institutions
Despite intensive work by human rights organizations to garner global condemnation of torture, in the years since the atrocities of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay were exposed, support in the United States for the use of torture has increased, and torture also attracts significant support in many other countries. This paper seeks to understand the affective work that the 'ticking time bomb scenario' and its imagined dramatization does in shaping h…
The Next Social Contract
The Prevention of Torture
There is an urgent need to analyze and assess how we prevent torture, against the background of a rigorous analysis of the factors that condition and sustain it. Drawing on rich empirical material from Sri Lanka and Nepal, The Prevention of Torture: An Ecological Approach interrogates the worlds that produce torture, in order to propose how to bring about systemic institutional and cultural change. Critics have decried human rights approaches' fa…
A disability aware approach to torture prevention? Australian Opcat ratification and improved protections for people with disability
In 2017, Australia ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT). Ratification of OPCAT presents as a unique opportunity to highlight the institutional treatment of people with disability in a range of sites of detention within Australia and build on advancing international protections for people with disability, including those articulated in the Convention …
The field of power of transnational law and the new democratic deficit
In the last 30 years, human rights advocates have brought suits for violations of human and environmental rights throughout the world, and against non-state actors under Alien Torts Statute, a piece of US legislation interpreted as providing jurisdiction over such cases. Finding themselves defending against suits before this statute, multinational corporations have increasingly sought a narrowing of its jurisdiction, culminating in this question'…
Justice Through a Multispecies Lens
Multispecies justice
In 2019, the climate emergency entered mainstream debates. The normative frame of climate justice as conceived in academia, policy arenas, and grassroots action, although imperative and growing in popularity across climate movements, is no longer adequate to address this emergency. This is for two reasons: first, as a framing for the problem, current notions of climate justice are insufficient to overcome the persistent silencing of voices belong…
A Political Theory for a Multispecies, Climate-Challenged World
This essay is part of a special issue celebrating 50 years of Political Theory. The ambition of the editors was to mark this half century not with a retrospective but with a confabulation of futures. Contributors were asked: What will political theory look and sound like in the next century and beyond? What claims might political theorists or their descendants be making in ten, twenty-five, fifty, a hundred years’ time? How might they vindicate t…
Climate imaginaries as praxis
As communities around the world grapple with the impacts of climate change on the basic support systems of life, their future climate imaginaries both shape and are shaped by actions and material realities. This paper argues that the three globally dominant imaginaries of a climate changed future, which we call 'business as usual', 'techno-fix' and 'apocalypse' - fail to encourage actions that fundamentally challenge or transform the arrangements…
Alter-transitional justice; transforming unjust relations with the more-than-human
Drawing on the emerging field of multispecies justice, this article seeks to understand how the idea of transitional justice, capaciously understood, might be put to work to transform unjust relations between humans and the more-than-human. Reflecting on concerns in the literatures on animals and the environment concerning the cogency of addressing past wrongs against the more-than-human by using a justice framework, the article sets out a founda…
The Fate of the Illegible Animal
The entanglement of donkey and human lives is both long and multidimensional, woven with the threads of economic inter-dependence, cultural and religious significance, militarism, friendship, ideas about and programs of conservation, and traditional Chinese medicine turned into a global industry. In this paper, we discuss four eras of entanglement of wild donkeys in Australia. During the first, now past, domesticated donkeys were exploited worker…
Embedding the apology in the nation's identity
Both Australia and New Zealand have been marked by powerful claims for reparation for wrongs committed against indigenous peoples, with the responses to these claims including apologies. The trajectories of these responses have differed, however, particularly with respect to the relative role of formal institutional recognition and social movements. This paper argues that the institutionalisation of Crown apologies to New Zealand Māori has led to…
Covid and the Era of Emergencies
The threat of emergency measures introduced in face of COVID-19 has largely been framed in terms of individual rights. We argue that it is not the protection of the sovereign individual that is most at stake, but the relations between political subjects and the institutions that enable their robust political participation. Drawing on Hannah Arendt's analysis of the ways in which isolation and the incapacity to discern truth or reality condition t…
A disability aware approach to torture prevention? Australian Opcat ratification and improved protections for people with disability
In 2017, Australia ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT). Ratification of OPCAT presents as a unique opportunity to highlight the institutional treatment of people with disability in a range of sites of detention within Australia and build on advancing international protections for people with disability, including those articulated in the Convention …
Institutional Transformations
The idea that social and political institutions can be designed in order to achieve specific human ends goes back, at least, to Plato’s presentation of the appropriate form of the just city-state i
Burdens of political responsibility; narrative and the cultivation of responsiveness
Mere Ritual? Displacing the Myth of Sincerity in Transitional Rituals
Journal Article Mere Ritual? Displacing the Myth of Sincerity in Transitional Rituals Get access Danielle Celermajer Danielle Celermajer * * Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney, Australia. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 7, Issue 2, July 2013, Pages 286–305, https:…
If Islam is our other, who are ‘we‘
Since September 11, the Australian media has increasingly represented Muslim Australians as essential outsiders threatening standards and values of the modern liberal democratic polity. This article traces a similar trend in a number of Western European countries, finding a link with backlashes against multiculturalism and a call for a return to putatively universal and absolute values that are being contravened by Muslims. The article also conne…
The Australian bushfire disaster
Bushfires in Australia in the “Black Summer” of 2019–2020 shocked the world. Research is allowing us to begin to appreciate the scale of the catastrophe for humans, other animals, and the environment. If we are to anticipate, mitigate, and prevent further catastrophes and to protect biodiversity as best we can, we must develop a comprehensive picture of the impacts of these recent bushfires, understand their causes, and trace where responsibility…
Adam in the garden and Lear in the storm
Amongst humanities scholars seeking to transform our understanding of the relationship between humans and other animals, there is near universal agreement that the stories constitutive of the tradition we call ‘the West’ assume and inform an ontology of absolute separation and hierarchy, and a politics of domination. Whilst this way of telling stories about our stories elucidates the tremendous hold that the narrative of human/animal discontinuit…
Acute and Everyday Violence in Sri Lanka
Police torture in Sri Lanka has been subject to extensive investigation and condemnation but remains a widespread and seemingly entrenched practice. Seeking to understand the resistance of such practices to existing interventions, this article locates the police's use of torture within a broader geography of social violence in Sri Lanka. We discuss the findings of extensive fieldwork conducted in the north-west of Sri Lanka where we examined not …
Hebraic Dimensions of Hannah Arendt's Thought
Although increasingly recognized as one of the most important and original political thinkers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt has not been associated with Hebraic traditions of thought. Indeed, while Arendt explicitly acknowledged the profound impact on the direction and substance of her thought of her experience as a Jew under Nazism, her vehement rejection of onto-theology led her to distance herself from the Hebrew God as a point of or…
The State of Free Speech
This article surveys the regulation of speech under the government of Prime Minister Howard so as to clarify the understandings of free speech that have been operant and to extrapolate from this debate to consider broader shifts in political forms. It reviews and contrasts liberal and republican conceptions of free speech and argues that what suffered most is the critical role free speech plays in ensuring popular sovereignty. It links this shift…
Just outside this skin
Imagine that white Australia is reclining (nervously) on Freud's couch. Twitches a little and adjusts himself (with discomfort) against the Persian covered cushions. What would the master of psychoanalysis make of his speech? The conceit is, of course, absurd. The couch would quickly splinter beneath the weight of the bodies which make up the fiction of 'white Australia'. And Sigmund (even in his younger years) wouldn't be able to decipher a sing…
The Apology in Australia
Introduction Special Edition
If Islam is our other, who are ‘we‘
Since September 11, the Australian media has increasingly represented Muslim Australians as essential outsiders threatening standards and values of the modern liberal democratic polity. This article traces a similar trend in a number of Western European countries, finding a link with backlashes against multiculturalism and a call for a return to putatively universal and absolute values that are being contravened by Muslims. The article also conne…
The State of Free Speech
This article surveys the regulation of speech under the government of Prime Minister Howard so as to clarify the understandings of free speech that have been operant and to extrapolate from this debate to consider broader shifts in political forms. It reviews and contrasts liberal and republican conceptions of free speech and argues that what suffered most is the critical role free speech plays in ensuring popular sovereignty. It links this shift…
Australian Memory and the Apology to the Stolen Generations of Indigenous People
The transformation of global politics in the early 1990s marked the end of the ‘short twentieth century’ (Hobsbawm 1994) and its Cold War certainties. If the collapse of the Soviet Union, end of apartheid in South Africa and fall of Latin America dictators indicated the victorious extension of the international liberal order, the outbreak of genocidal ethnic conflict in Rwanda, Yugoslavia and the Caucasus also heralded the return of integral nati…
Introduction
Hannah Arendt
As a political thinker nurtured in early 20th-century German, Hannah Arendt is most often identified with the Greek philosophical tradition. This article argues that the crisis in reality that threw her into politics also, though unacknowledgedly, threw her into 'Jewish modes of thinking' as an alternative source where she found the Greek tradition lacking. This claim is controversial, given Arendt's vehement criticisms of any recourse to the abs…
Hebraic Dimensions of Hannah Arendt's Thought
Although increasingly recognized as one of the most important and original political thinkers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt has not been associated with Hebraic traditions of thought. Indeed, while Arendt explicitly acknowledged the profound impact on the direction and substance of her thought of her experience as a Jew under Nazism, her vehement rejection of onto-theology led her to distance herself from the Hebrew God as a point of or…
Embedding the apology in the nation's identity
Both Australia and New Zealand have been marked by powerful claims for reparation for wrongs committed against indigenous peoples, with the responses to these claims including apologies. The trajectories of these responses have differed, however, particularly with respect to the relative role of formal institutional recognition and social movements. This paper argues that the institutionalisation of Crown apologies to New Zealand Māori has led to…
Preventing Human Rights Violations 'From the Inside
Drawing on a current project working on the prevention of torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and punishment with the security sectors of two post-conflict developing societies -Nepal and Sri Lanka -this article explores the trends in human rights education and the theoretical, contextual and practical challenges arising from interventions, and proposes some preliminary thoughts on ways forward. We argue that while th…
Mere Ritual? Displacing the Myth of Sincerity in Transitional Rituals
Journal Article Mere Ritual? Displacing the Myth of Sincerity in Transitional Rituals Get access Danielle Celermajer Danielle Celermajer * * Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney, Australia. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 7, Issue 2, July 2013, Pages 286–305, https:…
The ritualization of human rights education and training
Human rights education and training have become one of the principal pillars of the international human rights movement. Based on a comprehensive survey of training resources and approaches developed for police internationally, this article concludes that they principally follow a dry information transmission model using a traditional lecture-style pedagogy. Looking across the large body of training material available internationally, it appears …
Power, Judgment and Political Evil
Burdens of political responsibility; narrative and the cultivation of responsiveness
The field of power of transnational law and the new democratic deficit
In the last 30 years, human rights advocates have brought suits for violations of human and environmental rights throughout the world, and against non-state actors under Alien Torts Statute, a piece of US legislation interpreted as providing jurisdiction over such cases. Finding themselves defending against suits before this statute, multinational corporations have increasingly sought a narrowing of its jurisdiction, culminating in this question'…
Acute and Everyday Violence in Sri Lanka
Police torture in Sri Lanka has been subject to extensive investigation and condemnation but remains a widespread and seemingly entrenched practice. Seeking to understand the resistance of such practices to existing interventions, this article locates the police's use of torture within a broader geography of social violence in Sri Lanka. We discuss the findings of extensive fieldwork conducted in the north-west of Sri Lanka where we examined not …
The Prevention of Torture
There is an urgent need to analyze and assess how we prevent torture, against the background of a rigorous analysis of the factors that condition and sustain it. Drawing on rich empirical material from Sri Lanka and Nepal, The Prevention of Torture: An Ecological Approach interrogates the worlds that produce torture, in order to propose how to bring about systemic institutional and cultural change. Critics have decried human rights approaches' fa…
A disability aware approach to torture prevention? Australian Opcat ratification and improved protections for people with disability
In 2017, Australia ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT). Ratification of OPCAT presents as a unique opportunity to highlight the institutional treatment of people with disability in a range of sites of detention within Australia and build on advancing international protections for people with disability, including those articulated in the Convention …
The Fate of the Illegible Animal
The entanglement of donkey and human lives is both long and multidimensional, woven with the threads of economic inter-dependence, cultural and religious significance, militarism, friendship, ideas about and programs of conservation, and traditional Chinese medicine turned into a global industry. In this paper, we discuss four eras of entanglement of wild donkeys in Australia. During the first, now past, domesticated donkeys were exploited worker…
Institutional Transformations
The idea that social and political institutions can be designed in order to achieve specific human ends goes back, at least, to Plato’s presentation of the appropriate form of the just city-state i
The Tick-Tick-Ticking Time Bomb and Erosion of Human Rights Institutions
Despite intensive work by human rights organizations to garner global condemnation of torture, in the years since the atrocities of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay were exposed, support in the United States for the use of torture has increased, and torture also attracts significant support in many other countries. This paper seeks to understand the affective work that the 'ticking time bomb scenario' and its imagined dramatization does in shaping h…
The Next Social Contract
The Subject of Human Rights
Covid and the Era of Emergencies
The threat of emergency measures introduced in face of COVID-19 has largely been framed in terms of individual rights. We argue that it is not the protection of the sovereign individual that is most at stake, but the relations between political subjects and the institutions that enable their robust political participation. Drawing on Hannah Arendt's analysis of the ways in which isolation and the incapacity to discern truth or reality condition t…
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